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[0750] hope of bringing him to heel, by means of her cunt, that
trump card of young [place = inline] [⁁] wifes [place = supralinear] wives.
[0751] For she knew what he would do to
her if she did not open it to him.
[0752] And he even insisted on her
making things easy for him, in ways that often appeared to her
exorbitant.
[0753] And at the least show of rebellion on her part he
[ [place = margin left] ✓]would run to the wash-house and come back with the battle and
beat her until she came round to a better way of thinking.
[0754] All
this by the way.
[0755] And to return to our pigs, Lambert continued
to expatiate, to his near and dear ones, of an evening, while
y [place = overwritten] the lamp burned low, on the specimen he had k [place = overwritten] just slaughtered,
until the day he was summoned to slaughter another.
[0756] Then all
his conversation was of this new pig, so unlike the other in
every respect, so quite unlike, and yet at bottom the same.
[0757] For
al; [place = overwritten] l pigs are alike, when you get to know their little ways,
stuggle [place = supralinear] struggle, squeal, bleed, sueal [place = supralinear] squeal, struggle, bleed, suq [place = overwritten] queal and faint
away, in more or less the same way exactly, a way that is all
their own and could never be imitated by a lamb, for example,
or a kid.
[0758] But once March was out Big Lambert recovered his calm
and became his silent self again.
[place = inline] [⃞][0760] The son, or heir, was a great strapping lad with terrible teeth.
[place = inline] [⃞][0762] The farm.
[0763] The farm was in a hollow, flooded in winter and in
summer burnt to a cinder.
[0764] The way to it lay through a fine meadow.
[0765] But this g [place = overwritten] fine meadow did not belong to the Lamberts, but to other
peasants living at a distance.
[0766] There jonquils and narcissi bloomed
in extraordinary profusion, at the appropriate season.
[0767] And there
at nightfall, stealthily, Big Lambert turned los [place = inline] [⁁] [place = margin left] o[ [place = supralinear] o]se his goats.
[place = inline] [⃞][0768] Strange to say this gift that Lambert possessed when it came
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